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Not the might of long drilled warriors

Author: John R. Clements
Tune: [Not the might of long-drilled warriors]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Not the might of long-drilled warriors,
With their discipline and skill,
Not the shot and shell of canon
Put the foe to flight at will.

Refrain:
Just with trumpets, and with pitchers, and with lamps,
The army wrought dismay;
Just with trumpets, and with pitchers, and with lamps,
Our great Jehovah won the day!
Just with trumpets, and with pitchers, and with lamps,
The army wrought dismay;
Just with trumpets, and with pitchers, and with lamps,
Jehovah won the day.

2 Not the boasted skill of soldiers
Won for them that victory;
Not the might of man in triumph,
Set the persecuted free. [Refrain]

3 Oft today in giant struggles
God has shown His pow’r and might;
Using simple things to aid Him,
Foes dismayed are put to flight. [Refrain]

Source: Williston Hymns #170

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Author: John R. Clements

John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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